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Java Programming for Beginners

You're reading from   Java Programming for Beginners Learn the fundamentals of programming with Java

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788296298
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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SkillSprints Inc., Mark Lassoff SkillSprints Inc., Mark Lassoff
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Inheritance

Rather than starting with a high-level description, I think it'll be best if we jump right into a problem.

To get us started, I've created a basic Java program, which we can access from the given code files. In this program, we declare two Java classes: a Book class and a Poem class. Both the Book and Poem classes store a number of attributes; for example, Book can have a title, an author, a publisher, and a genre. It takes all these attributes as constructor input and provides a single public method; we can use the Print method in our main program to print out information about any books we create.

The Poem method does something very similar. It has a couple of attributes and a Print method, and we set its attributes through its constructor. I've whipped up a really quick main function to utilize the Book and Poem classes. This function creates a new...

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